It is in very bad taste .-- TRANS.] "Hum!" said the Theatin.
"That is a first sin, father; for I have allowed myself made to descend from two old Roman consuls, S.Geganius Macerinus 1st, Macerinus 2d, and Proculus Macerinus 3d, of whom the Chronicle of Haolander speaks.
From Macerinus to Mazarin the proximity was tempting.

Macerinus, a diminutive, means leanish, poorish, out of case.

Oh! reverend father! Mazarini may now be carried to the augmentative _Maigre_, thin as Lazarus.

Look!"-- and he showed his fleshless arms.
"In your having been born of a family of fishermen I see nothing injurious to you; for--St.Peter was a fisherman; and if you are a prince of the church, my lord, he was the supreme head of it.

Pass on, if you please." "So much the more for my having threatened with the Bastile a certain Bounet, a priest of Avignon, who wanted to publish a genealogy of the Casa Mazarini much too marvelous." "To be probable ?" replied the Theatin.
"Oh! if I had acted up to his idea, father, that would have been the vice of pride--another sin." "It was an excess of wit, and a person is not to be reproached with such sorts of abuses.